The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and reduce damage to private and public property. Please attend to… Read more Weather Resilience Workshops
Angela O’Rourke (angela.orourke@gmail.com) of Mozart’s Garden is looking for volunteers for this Saturday. Enjoy some outdoors time before Chicago winter comes! As for Volunteers, we just got a wood chip delivery which needs to be moved to the middle part of our garden. So if Gardeners from the Openlands Gardenkeeper class would like to come… Read more Mozart’s Garden seeking Saturday volunteers
Mozart’s Community Garden has been growing like a morning glory vine this year, supported by terrific garden leadership and fundraisers like their annual yard sale. You can support them this Saturday, October 12th by picking up or donating some items at their community yard sale. Here’s a message from gardener Angela O’Rourke: The first Garage… Read more Mozart’s Yard Sale this Saturday
This Saturday, September 7th from 1 to 4 pm, CCCG’s Summer of Garden Tours comes to a close with Growing Pride in Humboldt Park. Check below for individual garden details. The walk or bike will take place between one and four pm. The following gardens will participate: • Thomas Garden – 2655 W. Thomas this… Read more Growing Pride End-of-Summer Garden Walk
The seeds planted at the Connecting Chicago Community Gardeners (CCCG) conference this past February are starting to sprout! Gardeners have created a weekend-by-weekend schedule of garden tours happening throughout the city. Learn more about your own neighborhood, or get out to see what’s going on in other communities. Check back here throughout the summer for… Read more CCCG releases 2013 garden tour schedule
Does your garden have a community plot? El Yunque Community Garden in Humboldt Park started one this season. They hope to grow a variety of crops to give away to the community, including both vegetables and flowers. Labeling a bed in the garden as “community share” is a great way to show the community that… Read more Share the Harvest: El Yunque’s Community Share Plot
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External Site Mozart’s Community Garden is a neighborhood community garden in the beginning stages. Its mission is to serve the community in the southeast corner of Humboldt Park. It’s a collaboration by neighbors seeking to bring more community space to the area, growing their own food in a food… Read more Mozart’s Community Garden
This Saturday, from 10 am to 3 pm, Mozart’s Community Garden will be holding a garage sale from 10 am to 3 pm to help raise funds for their new site. There’s a raffle, too, including such prizes as an air hockey table, a waffle maker, and a George Foreman Grill. You can also make… Read more Garage Sale for Mozart’s Community Garden
Are you a community gardener, but you don’t feel a sense of community? Why not start a communal vegetable plot to grow food for others? Monarch Garden, an allotment garden in Humboldt Park, launched a produce giveaway in their garden last summer. The gardeners dedicated two plots, one vegetable and one herb, for donation. Throughout… Read more Share the Harvest: Starting a Produce Giveaway at Your Garden
What makes your block into a neighborhood? For the Chicagoans living near the intersection of Grand and Pulaski, it’s Children’s Garden of Hope. This year, the ACE Design Build Workshop worked with a team of 15 CPS high school students to create an inverted trumpet flower structure that does duty as public artwork, rain catchment… Read more NeighborSpace Year in Review: Children’s Garden of Hope
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